ID: 700009049 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009049	Record Type: Conceptual

First Venice Set (etchings (prints); James McNiell Whistler; commissioned by the Fine Art Society...; completed and exhibited in Dec...)

Note: Following Whistler's bankruptcy in May 1879, the Fine Art Society commissioned him to go to Venice and return by December with a set of twelve prints. In the event his inspiration ran away with him and he did not return until November of 1880, bringing back many more plates. Twelve were selected for publication as Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings (known as 'The First Venice Set') and were exhibited at the Fine Art Society in December 1880. A larger exhibition was held in 1883, including the etchings later published in 1886 by Dowdeswells' as a Set of Twenty-Six Etchings (known as 'The Second Venice Set'). The printing of the edition of the Second Set was completed by July 1887, but the printing of the First Set was still not complete at the artist's death in 1903.

Titles:

First Venice Set (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Venice, Whistler. Twelve Etchings (First Venice Set) (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: multiples

Work Types:

etchings (prints) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: completed and exhibited in December 1880

Creator Display:

James McNiell Whistler; commissioned by the Fine Art Society [preferred]

printmaker Whistler, James McNeill (American painter, printmaker, 1834-1903, active in England and France) [500012432]

commissioner (person who orders works) Fine Art Society (English repository, London, contemporary) [500301768]

Locations:

Not Applicable:

Display Materials: etchings

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

Dimensions: unavailable

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

cityscapes

Specific Subjects:

	Venice [7003006]
	.....(Veneto (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works

Sources and Contributors:
First Venice Set	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Australia (2005)
Venice, Whistler. Twelve Etchings (First Venice Set)	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Australia (2005)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... National Gallery of Australia (2005)
	..... Fitzwilliam Museum [online] (2000-)